Cover of Pedro Antonio De Alarcon: Three-cornered Hat

Pedro Antonio De Alarcon Three-cornered Hat

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Hesperus Press

UK

2004

Paperback

112

Standard

220306

978-1-84391-080-0

1-84391-080-2

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One of the best-loved Spanish novels of all time, The Three-Cornered Hat is a hilarious tale of lust, intrigue and corrupt authorities set in eighteenth-century Andalusia. When the hideous and lascivious corregidor Don Eugenio takes a fancy to the formidable - and formidably desirable - Senora Frasquita, the wife of a local miller, the couple set about foiling his plans for a seduction. There ensues a fast-paced comedy of moonlight flits, clothes swapping, mistaken identity, and slapstick accidents as the characters struggle in vain to maintain both dignity and marital harmony. Calm is eventually restored in a scene of unmasking and mutual forgiveness of truly operati

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